Health & Medical Administrative Services at Southwest Mississippi Community College

If you plan to study health and medical administrative services, take a look at what Southwest Mississippi Community College has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

SMCC is located in Summit, Mississippi and approximately 1,888 students attend the school each year.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Health & Medical Administrative Services section at the bottom of this page.

SMCC Health & Medical Administrative Services Degrees Available

• Associate’s Degree in Health & Medical Administrative Services

Online Classes Are Available at SMCC

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? SMCC offers distance education options for health and medical administrative services at the following degree levels:

• Associate’s Degree

SMCC Health & Medical Administrative Services Rankings

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

Health & Medical Administrative Services Student Demographics at SMCC

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the health and medical administrative services majors at Southwest Mississippi Community College.

SMCC Health & Medical Administrative Services Associate’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 10% of health and medical administrative services associate's degrees went to men and 90% went to women.

The majority of those who receive an associate's degree in health and medical administrative services at SMCC are white. Around 70% fell into this category, which is below average for this degree.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Southwest Mississippi Community College with a associate's in health and medical administrative services.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	6
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	14
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Concentrations Within Health & Medical Administrative Services

Health & Medical Administrative Services majors may want to concentrate their studies in one of these areas. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Southwest Mississippi Community College. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Health Information/Medical Records Technology/Technician	17
Medical Insurance Coding Specialist/Coder	3

Related Majors

• Nursing

Careers That Health & Medical Administrative Services Grads May Go Into

A degree in health and medical administrative services can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for MS, the home state for Southwest Mississippi Community College.

Occupation	Jobs in MS	Average Salary in MS
Office and Administrative Support Worker Supervisors	12,410	$47,000
Medical Assistants	3,160	$30,470
Medical and Health Services Managers	3,010	$94,800
Medical Secretaries	2,880	$30,760
Administrative Services Managers	2,780	$80,410

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online

More about our data sources and methodologies.